Subject: Re: (Fwd) 1.5 install fails during device creation on cyrix dlc-40
To: None <tech-install@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Richard Jenniss <dr.awe@telus.net>
List: tech-install
Date: 01/13/2001 13:37:56
Are you re-using existing partitions or are you re-creating them?
I'm asking because its been a while since I installed NetBSD (:

Peace,
Richard.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael E. Cannella" <cannella@msu.edu>
To: <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>; <tech-install@NetBSD.ORG>
Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 11:52 AM
Subject: (Fwd) 1.5 install fails during device creation on cyrix dlc-40


> I've been running my firewall on 1.4.2 on a cyrix 486 DLC-40 with 16M RAM
for six
> months or so without too many problems.
>
> I recently tried, unsuccessfully, to install 1.5 (booting from floppy,
> sets on CD) .  Everything goes normally until device creation, at
> which point there is an error:
>
>
> uvm_fault (0xc2646468,0xbfefe000,0,1) -> 1
> kernel: page fault trap, code=0
> stopped in mknod at 0xc0251c72:mov1  0(%esi,%eax,4),%ebx
>
>
> Any experience/ideas/suggestions?
>
> michael cannella - cannella@msu.edu
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
> One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the
> curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day this
> will be an airborne life. But by then men will have forgotten how to fly.
>   --  Beryl Markham, from "West With the Night"